What are the benefits of toad fur? Let me show you the correct usage

Toad fur grass is native to plateau areas, and is more commonly found in Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, etc. The medicinal materials grown in these remote areas are mostly not seen in China, and are rarely seen in life. Moreover, because it takes manpower and time to obtain the materials, it is very expensive. Toad fur grass has many main therapeutic effects and can be used in various traditional Chinese medicines. You need to understand its shape and characteristics so that you can recognize it next time you see it.

Snow Primrose

(Belongs to Crassulaceae)

Other names of litchi grass: snow primrose, wrinkled grass, toad grass, wild mustard (Jiangsu, Jiangxi), toad grass, frog grass (Sichuan, Guizhou), snow green, black perilla (Jiangsu), earth mustard, monkey back grass (Yunnan), small blood-activating grass, hemp chicken (Jiangxi), ditch sweet rush, expanded grass (Fujian), snow primrose, wintering grass (Zhejiang).

Erect herb, 15-19 cm high, much branched. Stem square, sparsely pubescent. The root leaves are clustered and close to the ground. The leaves are oblong to lanceolate, with obvious deep wrinkles on the leaf surface. The stem leaves are opposite, with petioles 0.5-1.5 cm long, densely covered with short soft hairs. The leaf blades are oblong or lanceolate, 2-6.5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, obtuse at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the base, with serrated edges, wrinkles on the upper side, golden glandular dots on the lower side, and covered with short hairs on both sides. The cymes have 2 to 6 flowers, gathered into terminal and axillary pseudoracemes or panicles. The bracts are small and lanceolate; the calyx is bell-shaped, about 3 mm long, with golden glandular dots and short hairs on the back, divided into two lips, the upper lip has three thicker veins, three inconspicuous teeth at the top, and the lower lip has 2 teeth; the corolla is lip-shaped, lavender to blue-purple, 4-4.5 cm long, with a hair ring at the base of the tube, the upper lip is entire, the lower lip is 3-lobed, the middle lobe is the largest, broadly obcordate, and the lobes on both sides are nearly semicircular; there are 2 stamens, attached to the base of the lower lip and extending out of the corolla tube; the ovary is 4-lobed, and the style is attached to the bottom of the ovary. The nutlets are obovate, brown, smooth, and have glandular dots. The flowering period is May, and the fruiting period is May to June.

Growing on hillsides, roadsides, wastelands, and riverside wetlands.

Except Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet, it is distributed all over the country